lucas182

Just started the game AGAIN.. this time signed into LIVE and it worked. Took around 30-45 Seconds again. No screen poped asking me to log in this time.

Still using driver 178.24

Something tells me the reason GTA wasnt loading before (at least in my case) is that the game doesn't seem to like the windows 64-bit program files default directory. Im not sure though. will keep on testing

lucas182

Used Driver 180.84 this time. It loaded in about 47 seconds, using some relatively high settings.

I think the game eithera) doesnt like the \Program Files (x86)\ thing; orb) i have a faulty primary hard drive and GTA has got a problem with it... i dont think this is the problem provided the number of users having the forever load issue (way too many).

Loaded the game a second time using -norestrictions -nomemrestrict -novblank commands.Loaded in 13 seconds.

lucas182

I have just reinstalled GTA 4 on my regular primary C:\ hard drive (refer to my previous posts) and it works like a charm.

The only thing i did different was that i changed the installation directory from C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV (default) to C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV ... WITHOUT the (x86) (i use vista 64 bit)

Problem solved. loaded the game in 22 seconds. No noticeable lag, no missing textures, nothing.Used the commandline parameters.

good luck to everyone that still has this crazy game breaking problem.

lucas182

well.. i get past the loading screen... but talk about an unbelievably unstable game... crashing all the time.. freezing.. etc. i even got stuck in a mission loading screen (with the flashing letters)..

after so many hours trying to get this thing to work ill just gadly wait for a patch

jortaman

well.. i get past the loading screen... but talk about an unbelievably unstable game... crashing all the time.. freezing.. etc. i even got stuck in a mission loading screen (with the flashing letters)..

after so many hours trying to get this thing to work ill just gadly wait for a patch

Same problem here... I thought It helped with deleteting quicktime but I still got freezed

ninjacoder

well i have the same problem also, how i get it to work is i waited until the game begin to stop loading (say the hd's will light stop blinking), as soon as that happen i press ctrl-alt-del, which will bring me to the windows seccurity screen where you can shutdown, log off, task manager etc.... then i press cancel and by doing that it will automatically tab back into the game. And for some ridiculous reason by doing that the game will continue to load again (beats me -__- ). This is in Windows Xp btw i dont know if by doing the above would make the game load for vista user. Other than that i got the game to work but i still have the texture problem since i have a 7600gt even with the latest driver that nvidia recently put out *sigh*

SandmanX

Updated my Quicktime and iTunes with no success. Guess the only option is to uninstall them but I think that's absolutely absurd so I'll just use the rudimentary solution of ejecting and reinserting my disc to force load the game. How depressing.

blacknight_8

Hey guys , i have just bought GTA IV and installed it . It took 1 minute to get the game loaded when i click the "start" button . This 1 minute load also affected my subsequent GTA IV games . During this load , the picture presentation is being played . I sorta get to look at all the pictures but shouldn't the load be faster ? My pal with a Duo Core , SP3 , 8800gt 512 mb runs faster than mine with a load time of 2 pictures . Mine has a whole presentation of pictures. Any suggestions ?

Rizard

I tried .net framework 3.5 but it gave an error during instalation... blablaI uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime but nope that didn't work either... i hope this topic stays alive and i also hope that the patch comes out soon and will help us all.I also tried a dual core upgrade or something just for trying.Not 2 forget i re´nstalled lots of times also

But i keep getting the loop , the music goes and then stops and then the characters keep looping and looping ....

Fludboy

I tried .net framework 3.5 but it gave an error during instalation... blablaI uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime but nope that didn't work either... i hope this topic stays alive and i also hope that the patch comes out soon and will help us all.I also tried a dual core upgrade or something just for trying.Not 2 forget i re´nstalled lots of times also

But i keep getting the loop , the music goes and then stops and then the characters keep looping and looping ....